When Greta Thunberg decided to sail across the Atlantic instead of hop on a plane due to the environmental impact of flying, travelers and airline companies alike started thinking about a more environmentally...
City bosses have objected to the plans to expand Southampton airport. After hours of discussion in a busy council chamber, the planning committee at Southampton City Council decided not to back...
Southampton City Council leader Christopher Hammond has written a letter to planning bosses urging them to object to the plans. Here is the letter by Cllr Hammond in full: “You will...
Pledges to curb carbon have been made, investments in electrification are on the rise and viable alternative fuels are, at last, in the pipeline. But activists, scientists and even airline executives...
Flight cacophony ‘more annoying’ than road or rail and we are becoming increasingly sensitive to it, research finds The way aircraft noise is monitored in the UK “seriously underestimates” the disturbance...
Angry protests from residents in popular areas force city hall officials to take action Across Europe, historic cities are buckling. Mass tourism, encouraged by cash-hungry councils after the 2008 crash and...
Stansted Airport’s long-awaited expansion was dramatically blocked after the district council overturned a previous decision to green-light the plans. In an extraordinary planning committee meeting at Uttlesford District Council (UDC) on...
Amazon is the rumored tenant of a newly approved air cargo facility that working-class residents say would bring more dead end jobs and air pollution to their community. On December 30,...
Though air travel is more popular than ever, the vast majority of people in the world have never been on a plane. As that dynamic slowly changes, the environment stands to...